Who is this David Hard of whom you speak?

A little more here on that: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jYaWqpKeaZx1r6c

The guy is a fraud. Probrably likes gay marriage.

Thou shalt love thyself.

You say that like it's a bad thing.

I think he has a healthy distaste for false modesty.

I assure you… I adore him more

​@@wordscapes5690You must really like him, yeah.

It is funny, but you could equally say of DBH that he's a wing of the Southern Poverty Law Centre with incense. 🤣

​@@tonyoliver2750 Well, Jesus was concerned with the poor, so that seems to fit.

@@PC-vp2cg Socialism isn't concerned with the poor, it makes people poor.

@@tonyoliver2750 Alright, thanks for outing yourself as an American, I'm outta here

@@PC-vp2cg I'm not an American, North, Central or South. Your conclusion simply defies logic, so perhaps getting "outta here" (an Americanism, surely?) is probably your best option.

We're not a "denomination", we're The Church of Christ

@@apmoy70 ah, you sound like the Pharisees when pridefully answering to Christ that they alone are the sons of Abraham...

@@stefang.9763 Whatever man, whatever makes you happy...nevertheless, Christ built a Church and this Church never disappeared nor went lost

There have always been Christians who couldn't accept the notion of eternal torture. Augustine mockingly called them misericordi nostri in The City of God, Book 21.

@Gregory James Petersen That's usually the way it is (politics proceed from theology). It doesn't necessarily have to be that way, though.

“I’m a Christian I just don’t believe in social Justice”. Cool story bro 😎 😂

@@RootinrPootine I'm neither, dumdum.

That’s nice.

@Gregory James Petersen , with all due respect, brother (or peripheral friend of the faith), Jesus was not a socialist; His kingdom was not of this world. Any attempt to link the timeless truths of the gospel to political ideologies of any sort are antithetical to the basics of our faith in the Lord Jesus. Instead of flippantly asking me to read the New Testament (which I have read in English, Spanish, French, and Koine Greek), ask me about my father, a political prisoner in Cuba, a minister of the gospel of Jesus Christ, a man who suffered because he refused to yield his faith in the Lord to the execrable tenets of socialism...which, by the way, has horrifically shattered the people of Cuba, just as it has shattered ALL who have succumbed to the wretched thievery and human rights abuses of socialism. (Shhh, don't tell anybody, but it has NEVER worked...Shhh, don't tell anybody, but it is atheistic at its core.) ;)

​@Gregory James Petersen , how quick you are to offend, wow. I share my personal history as a Cuban man, and you write it off as not saying much. You are not in the faith, friend. DBH's That All Shall Be Saved made a lot of sense to me, I'll admit. But in interviews he comes across as extremely smug, and it's really disconcerting. Socialism is evil.

DBH “We should improve society somewhat” You [melting down] “Supercilious!” DBH “charity and social justice are the core of the faith, not ego worship” You “What an ego! Criticizing economic equality (capitalism)? Not Christian! Now I have to throw away his book I already said was good!”

Impressively dog-brained post, man 😂

☦Yes, in the sick pretentious heretical mind of this false prophet - stay away from him if you don't wanna end up forever in the lake of fire with him. He better repent & fast. Despicable

He really just needs to come out and say he's for gay marriage at this point, he seems to have hinted at much recently. Time for him to just admit it.

@@chanting_germ. Patriarch Kyril prays for peace. Stop judging

@exercisewaterhart The war in Ukraine was started in 2014 when the US sponsored a coup that overthrew the lawfully elected government, and then we picked the leadership of the new regime. There is no government more responsible for the bloodshed there than our own.

@exercisewaterhart has he renounced Orthodoxy in public? He's undoubtedly a brilliant man, but his theology is not Christian. It's more an eclectic form of Buddhism.

@@fr.johnwhiteford6194 Not sure how you could call it buddhism, if anything you could call it Christo-centric vedanta. Hart is basically just an ecumenically/sycrentistically inclined Christo-centric neoplatonist/vedantist.

I don't see much scholarship from him, mostly just sentimentalism and vain speculation. He doesn't demonstrate the mastery of the patristic literature that more capable Orthodox scholars do.

@Costa Keith I agree with you, it's very concerning when a person elevates himself or knowledge above the church.

@@Dlee-eo5vv If he wants to apply h is interpretations to the historic and literary record, I may not always agree with it, but that's what academics do, for better or worse. However, a prerequisite to this privileges is a complete mastery of the literature in the field, which in Orthodox Theology means pretty much the entirety of the Patrologae Graeca and about 50 more volumes of important synodal, patriarchal, imperial, patristic, and legal texts that would take too long to list here -- the vast majority of which is only available in Greek. Nothing I've seen from Hart suggests this level of familiarity that ought to be expected of a scholar, I've even seen him state ideas of his that would present a golden opportunity to reference one text or another I am familiar with (and, no, I don't claim to be familiar with the entire corpus of patristic literature, but nor do I fancy myself a scholar or academic), and it's clear that he's unaware of it because he fails to cite it even though doing so would considerably strengthen his argument. It's a very different experience from reading things written by people like Fr. John Behr or Fr. George Dragas, whose books and papers are worth getting just for the bibliographies, regardless of whether or not you're interested in the subject matter.

@@costakeith9048 And what books have you written lately?

@@dubbelkastrull While I may be able to attain to Hart's level of scholarship, that does not mean that I am sufficiently well versed to put pen to paper. Such audacity ought, ideally, to be left to the bishops, saints, and elders; but if we are to attempt it in an academic setting, it must at least be after obtaining a mastery of the patristic literature far beyond what either Hart or I have achieved. There are dozens of tomes of, mostly Medieval, Greek patristic literature that I have never even read, much less mastered. How could I contribute to the patristic tradition if I have not yet mastered what is already there? I'm not a saint, I cannot speak from Divine Revelation, all I can do is comment on the writings of my betters.

It's pretty sad people need to be taught humility, Paul said "to see others as better then yourself". Plain and simple

​@@daMillenialTrucker Anyone who claims humility is easy, is definitely not humble

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Well articulated.

@@justchilling704 👶🧠

It's as though he expended all of his considerable intellect on theology and philosophy and had nothing left for economics and politics. It's probably a good thing for me, though. If he was as brilliant across the board, I'd be tempted to wear a DBH t-shirt and that would be embarrassing for a grown man.

@@ericmccarty5783 Right!